Vehicle Feature Usage Preference from Mobile App Behavior

Solution Overview

Problem

Vehicles are equipped with redundant features that duplicate functionalities provided by personal mobile devices, leading to inefficiencies and increased resource usage and costs.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that obtain application-usage data from personal mobile devices and compare it with vehicle feature usage data to determine a usage preference, allowing for the identification and potential removal of redundant vehicle features.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If vehicles are equipped with redundant features to duplicate mobile device functionalities, then user experience and functionality are improved, but resource consumption and costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoidresource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the redundant vehicle features that duplicate mobile device functionalities by comparing usage data from both sources. When a vehicle feature is found to be redundant (i.e., the mobile device application is used more frequently), the system removes or deactivates that vehicle feature, thereby reducing resource consumption while maintaining necessary functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system discards unused vehicle features by identifying them through usage comparison and removing them from active operation. This allows the vehicle system to recover resources (computing power, memory, energy) that were previously consumed by these redundant features, while the capability is recovered through the operator's personal mobile device.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #34Discarding and recovering

2Adaptability or versatility

If vehicles are equipped with redundant features to duplicate mobile device functionalities, then user experience and functionality are improved, but manufacturing costs and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the redundant vehicle features that duplicate mobile device functionalities by comparing usage data from both sources. When a vehicle feature is found to be redundant (i.e., the mobile device application is used more frequently), the system removes or deactivates that vehicle feature, thereby reducing resource consumption while maintaining necessary functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system discards unused vehicle features by identifying them through usage comparison and removing them from active operation. This allows the vehicle system to recover resources (computing power, memory, energy) that were previously consumed by these redundant features, while the capability is recovered through the operator's personal mobile device.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #34Discarding and recovering

3Loss of substance

If usage data is collected and analyzed from personal mobile devices and vehicle features, then redundant features can be identified and removed, but data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource usageVSAvoiddata processing

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and storing usage data from both vehicle features and personal mobile devices before making removal decisions. This preliminary data collection and analysis phase allows the system to identify usage patterns and determine redundancy beforehand, making the actual feature removal process more efficient and less complex.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring usage data from both vehicle features and personal mobile devices. This feedback loop allows the system to dynamically identify when a vehicle feature has become redundant based on actual usage patterns, enabling data-driven decisions about feature removal while adapting to changing user behaviors.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11536581B2Methods and systems for determining a usage preference of a vehicle operator

Publication Date: 2022.12.27 TOYOTA MOTOR ENG & MFG NORTH AMERICA INC

AI summary

An embodiment takes the form of a system that obtains application-usage data from a personal mobile device of a vehicle operator of a vehicle. The application-usage data reflects a usage, during operation of the vehicle, of an application on the personal mobile device. The system identifies a vehicle feature, of the vehicle, that provides a vehicle functionality similar to an application functionality provided by the application on the personal mobile device, and performs a comparison of the obtained application-usage data with feature-usage data. The feature-usage data reflects a usage, during operation of the vehicle, of the identified vehicle feature. The system determines, based on the comparison, a usage preference for the application during operation of the vehicle over the identified vehicle feature.